PDF Version of WCU 20:12 – June 8, 2012 In this issue: Vegetable Crops Vegetable Crop Insects Pruning Tomatoes Watch for Striped Cucumber Beetle and Squash Bugs at Base of Cucurbit Plants Potato Disease Advisory #10 – June 7, 2012… Continue Reading
Carl German, Extension Crops Marketing Specialist; clgerman@udel.edu Commodity Markets Remain in a Highly Volatile Situation Corn, soybean, and wheat futures prices have struggled this week to regain some of their recent losses that were brought on by poor performance in… Continue Reading
Joanne Whalen, Extension IPM Specialist; jwhalen@udel.edu Alfalfa Continue to sample for potato leafhoppers on a weekly basis. We continue to find adults and nymphs in fields. Although both life stages can damage alfalfa, the nymphs can cause damage very quickly.… Continue Reading
Phillip Sylvester, Kent Co., Ag Agent; phillip@udel.edu Late blight Advisory Location: Art and Keith Wicks Farm, Rt 9, Leipsic, Kent County, Delaware Greenrow: April 20 Date DSV Total DSV Accumulated P-Days Spray Interval Recommendation 5/20-5/22 11 55 229 5-days 5/22-5/23… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu I talk about this every year it seems, but I still see cucumber beetle and squash bug problems at the base of growers’ cucurbit plants. So far this has been a… Continue Reading
